The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World

Professor Emeritus Lynn Hunt (University of California, Los Angeles, USA),Jack R. Censer (George Mason University, USA)

The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
7 September 2017
Pages
256
ISBN
9781474213714

The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World

Professor Emeritus Lynn Hunt (University of California, Los Angeles, USA),Jack R. Censer (George Mason University, USA)

Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer’s The French Revolution and Napoleon provides a globally-oriented narrative history of events from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon. It emphasizes the global origins and consequences of the French Revolution and explains why it is the formative event for modern politics.

The book integrates global competition, fiscal crisis, slavery and the beginnings of nationalism with the more traditional emphases on human rights and constitutions, terror and violence, and the rise of authoritarianism. This global approach then enables the authors - two world-renowned scholars in the field - to clearly illustrate how the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire changed all the political givens for Europe, the Americas, North Africa and parts of Asia as well.

Including numerous illustrations and maps, end-of-chapter questions, timelines and primary source document extracts for analysis in each chapter, this book is essential reading for all students of modern European history who want to understand the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire in a truly global context.

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